Engineering checks before procurement signs the land.
Most site decisions are made on commercial criteria — per-hectare price, transaction speed, who the seller knows. Engineering is checked retroactively, and the unbuildable surfaces eighteen months later when grid upgrades, water-allocation gaps, and climate-envelope assumptions land in execution at six-figure mitigation cost.
USQI™ runs the engineering test before the LOI. Twelve dimensions scored against your operator standard. Output is an investment-committee-grade shortlist that survives the seller's data room and the anchor tenant's audit — in the same document.
- Twelve scored dimensions — power · water · climate · fibre · grid · latency · carbon · regulation · local content · hazards · logistics · labour
- Anchor-tenant procurement-framework scan (IKTVA · ICV · NCA in MENA, EU local-content equivalents, US tax-credit qualification)
- Submarine-cable redundancy and sovereignty-boundary audit — single-points-of-failure surfaced before LOI
- AI-grade · DLC-readiness scored from line one, not bolted on after the procurement memo
- One decision-grade document sized for IC, board, and hyperscale-tenant audit pack — three audiences, one set of numbers
- Deliverables
- Site comparison matrix, risk register, recommended shortlist.
- Pricing
- Fixed-fee
- Typical
- 3–5 weeks